Mother Dulcina’s face was one of surprise: “… What did you say, what did you say?”
Dulcina Calvo’s little face suddenly paled as she realized what she had said: “Mom, I, I…”.
Mother Dulcina stared at her, holding anger in her chest as she asked, word for word, “Dulcina Calvo, you just said you are pregnant, is it true?”
Dulcina Calvo can’t deny pregnancy: “Mom, I’m sorry, I …”.
“Snap!”
A resounding slap was thrown hard at Dulcina Calvo’s small face.
The girl’s small white face was instantly lifted with red slap marks.
Dulcina Calvo covered the right side of her face where she had been hit and tears fell from her eyes.
Esteban Zaragosa expected even less that Mother Dulcina would hit her daughter and the man pulled the girl behind him to shield her, “Aunt, because you are Dulcina’s mother and my eldest, I respect you, but that doesn’t mean I can watch you hit Dulcina. ”
Esteban Zaragosa’s words were still polite, but there was a chill in his tone.
Mother Dulcina scoffed: “It is not for you, an outsider, to interfere in my own daughter’s education!
Esteban Zaragosa put his arms around her so tightly that mother Dulcina had no choice but to turn around angrily and enter the house.
Esteban Zaragosa lowered his gaze, kissed the girl’s forehead and said reassuringly, “Don’t be afraid.”
The matter had to be resolved sooner or later and dragging it out was not going to solve it, Esteban Zaragosa put his arm around Dulcina Calvo and walked straight into the house.
Mother Dulcina sat on the sofa with a stony face and fierce eyes.
Dulcina Calvo, on the other hand, hides behind Esteban Zaragosa like a stray child, her small hands tugging at the man’s coat.
The look on Mother Dulcina’s face, as if she wanted to eat Dulcina Calvo alive, wasn’t too much to ask.
Esteban Zaragosa spoke softly, “Tia, it’s not Dulcina’s fault that she’s pregnant, and if you think it is, then it’s also my fault for allowing Dulcina to carry my child.”
Mother Dulcina looked at Esteban Zaragosa’s righteousness and became even more annoyed: “You got my daughter pregnant and you justify yourself?
“Aunt, Dulcina and I are two lovers.”
Mother Dulcina: “Eh, a love affair? You were in love with your wife when you married her! But now you’ve left her and told Dulcina, a child, that you love her and that she’s too young to believe you!”
Dulcina Calvo could not resist speaking in favor of Esteban Zaragosa and stepped forward: “Mom, you misunderstand Esteban Zaragosa, he did not marry Claudio Belles for love, but only because … ”
Mother Dulcina raised an eyebrow at this comment: “It’s not for love? Then this man is even more terrible! He can marry any woman he wants! He can marry you now and divorce you later and go marry another woman.”
“Mom! Why are you looking at Esteban Zaragosa with tinted glasses? His last marriage wasn’t even a common-law marriage, so how can he not have the right to marry me? We gave each other the first time and we really loved each other! Mom, I’m marrying Esteban Zaragosa whether you agree with me or not!”
Dulcina Calvo spoke her mind, and Mother Dulcina shuddered as she pointed her finger at her, “Dulcina Calvo, are you rebelling? Why have you become so brazen now? Are you licking your lips and asking people to marry you?”
Esteban Zaragosa took the little girl’s face to his side and spoke with the utmost seriousness: “Aunt, Dulcina is the only girl I have ever been attracted to and fallen in love with, and I want to marry her, not because she is pregnant with my child, I want to marry her, and I have been preparing for it for years. I hope you make it possible for us.”
Mother Dulcina just thought Esteban Zaragosa was talking out of his ass, “Dulcina Calvo you’re going to piss me off, I can’t handle this, I’m going to call your father right now!”
After a few moments, Pueblo Dulcina arrived home in full swing.
On the phone, Mother Dulcina had already cried and told the whole story, and Pueblo Dulcina was even more distressed by Dulcina Calvo’s behavior this time.
“Dulcina Calvo, your mother and I put a lot of effort into raising you, but what you’re doing now, do you know how much you’ve let me and your mother down? Do you know what’s wrong with you?”.
Dulcina Calvo stubbornly said, “Dad, I’m not wrong, why should I admit it?”.
“Dulcina Calvo you have let me down badly! You have lived your whole life, your mother has beaten you and I, as a father, have never once hit you, so today I will teach you what is right and what is wrong!”
Pueblo Dulcina grabbed a long steel pipe from the balcony and hit Dulcina Calvo in the back, but before the pipe could fall, Esteban Zaragosa was one step faster and had the girl in his arms, and the pipe hit Esteban Zaragosa hard in the back.
Dulcina Calvo’s eyes widened: “Esteban Zaragosa? let him go!”.
“I educate my daughter, please get out of the way!”
Esteban Zaragosa’s arms, like an iron wall around the girl in his arms, were so strong that Dulcina Calvo could not break free.
“Dulcina is the girl I’ve decided I want to live my life with, and I’ve made a promise to stay with her for the rest of my life, and I’m not getting out of the way.”
Dulcina Calvo looked at the man’s handsome face and sour tears fell, “Esteban Zaragosa …”
Pueblo Dulcina became furious and picked up the pipe and hit it harder: “You want to protect her, don’t you? Fine, I’ll hit you today too!”.
The steel tube that holds Pueblo Dulcina, a tube of construction material, is very heavy and naturally hurts when it falls on a person’s body, and each blow causes a fierce dull ache, as if the ribs are about to break.
Dulcina Calvo was held in Esteban Zaragosa’s arms, but she could clearly feel the vibrations in Esteban Zaragosa’s body, and even though the man gritted his teeth to keep from screaming in pain, he grunted twice in pain.
Dulcina Calvo looked at the bruises on the back of her hand and squeezed it tightly between her small hands, knowing the pain she must be feeling right now from the steel pipe, and tears of anguish, drop by drop, hit the back of her hand.
“Esteban Zaragosa, get out of the way, at this rate … my father is going to kill you”.
The man’s dark eyes looked deep into her, “I said I would fight to protect you and the child with all my might, and I will not go back on my word.”
“Esteban Zaragosa … you big fool!”
Mother Dulcina looked at the two children and suddenly her heart softened.
This Esteban Zaragosa, it seems, really cares about Dulcina, otherwise he would not have used his body to protect Dulcina so much.
Pueblo Dulcina hit Esteban Zaragosa hard with each blow, a dozen or so, and finally, a splash of blood reflected on Esteban Zaragosa’s white shirt.
Dulcina Calvo could feel that Esteban Zaragosa seemed about to faint, but the man kept hugging her tightly as Dulcina Calvo cried and pleaded, “Papa! Please stop! If you keep hitting her like this, Esteban Zaragosa will really die.”
Just as Esteban Zaragosa was about to fall, Dulcina Calvo forcefully let go of his arms and protected his body with one hand.
The final blow, which hit Dulcina Calvo’s slender back, made her eyes fill with tears, but the girl was still holding Esteban Zaragosa, “Esteban Zaragosa you wake up! …”
Mother Dulcina finally gave in and said, “Forget it, don’t fight! I don’t think they’ll regret it either.”
Pueblo Dulcina looked distressed and let out a deep sigh, dropping the pipe in her hand straight to the floor, not bothering to look at them again and walking straight into the room.